Our residents participate in the care of essentially all patients admitted to the medical center’s ob/gyn service. Including the patient population from Missouri Baptist Medical Center, this makes for a busy and exciting inpatient service.

The Barnes-Jewish Hospital obstetric unit has a volume of about 4,000 deliveries per year and provides state-of-the-art technology with a full range of obstetric care. A new inpatient tower, slated to open in 2017, will provide a brand new inpatient facility for all obstetric and gynecologic services.

Outpatient ambulatory care

Our residents participate in obstetrics and gynecology outpatient clinics located in the Center for Outpatient Health at the northern reach of the WUMC campus. In these busy clinics, patients are seen for high-risk obstetric problems or in referral for complicated gynecologic care.

Continuity Clinics on the WUMC campus are available for all residents in the second, third, and fourth years. Under supervision of the generalist faculty, residents function in practice groups similar to private practice and care for their own patients over the course of the last three years of their training. Emphasis is on learning skills to providing health maintenance in primary medical care settings.

A number of subspecialty resident clinics are also housed at the Center for Outpatient Health, including clinics for high-risk obstetrics, obstetrical diabetes, gynecologic tumors, colposcopy, urogynecology, pediatrics and family planning.

With the increasing shift of medicine to the outpatient arena, the ob/gyn residency program provides trainees with the skills to deal effectively with these clinical problems.

In the Center for Outpatient Health, residents work closely with a variety of allied health professionals, including nurse practitioners. On completion of the residency, our graduates will be well prepared to deal with clinical challenges that ambulatory medicine presents.